Applying international standards and guidelines on corporate social responsibility: An action plan

Abstract

How can a company start the process of corporate social responsibility in an international context, thereby makinge use of diverse standards and guidelines? This question immediately came to the fore emerged after the start of the programme ‘Corporate social responsibility in international context’ programme of the National Initiative for Sustainable Development (NIDO), running which runs from January 2003 – August 2005. The objective of this programme is to concretise, in cooperation with 22 Dutch companies, how companies can employ corporate put social responsibility into practice in an international context. On the basis of Based on the practical experiences gained within this NIDO programme, an action plan has been formulated on how to make use of the variety of international standards and guidelines on corporate social responsibility has been formulated. This action plan consists of two steps